Typicality, Irreversibility and the Status of Macroscopic Laws.
We discuss Boltzmann's probabilistic explanation of the second law of thermodynamics providing a comprehensive presentation of what is called today the typicality account. Countering its misconception as an alternative explanation, we examine the relation between Boltzmann's H-theorem and the genera...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 689 - 717 |
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